Need recommedations for my 14 year old son

[Malweth]

I'm not sure if it was mentioned, but along with The Hunger Games, Collins wrote the Gregory series. Although this series *seems* for a younger crowd, I personally think it has more value than The Hunger Games.

Thanks for this list, though. I saw one or two I haven't read.

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[Skate]

My son, a reluctant reader, read Joanne Harris's Runemarks when he was 14 and absolutely loved it. There's a sequel now, too.

[rmsotera]

I recommend The Hunger Games series.  I teach it to my high school students and they love it!  It's very action packed and incorporates alot of Greek Mythology - the story of Theseus -

RM

[JBarry22]

I actually live in the same town as the author of "The Hunger Games".  My mother met her when she came to the school where she works. Said she was nice.

[KateDanley]

In addition to all of those WONDERFUL suggestions above, he might also enjoy The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper.  The protagonist is a thirteen year old boy, but even as an adult, this series is complex and wonderful.



The Black Cauldron is another great series with a great male protagonist and wonderful writing.



I think I was around his age when I read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings... And then it isn't on Kindle yet, but Raymond E. Feist's Magician: Apprentice was pretty life altering for me (I think in the same way that "The Hobbit" is for other Fantasy readers).  You can usually pick up a used copy for a buck, and it is TOTALLY worth the paper it is printed on.      While we're talking classics, though, Ray Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles" seems to come up in conversations with guys I know as a life altering read.  Michael Ende's "Neverending Story" (which is SO good) is also one the guys I know cite.

I know that I was reading Douglas Adams at his age.  You might give it a read to make sure there isn't anything objectionable, but if memory serves, it's tame compared to the stuff on primetime television.




Good luck!

[UnicornEmily]

Try Brandon Mull's Fablehaven series!  And Obert Skye's Leven Thumps series.  They are both complete.  Fablehaven is spectacular; Leven Thumps is just good (but I really did like the story).

Oh, yes!  My thirteen-year-old brother is currently loving the Adventurers Wanted series, by M. L. Forman.  I'd recommend that to a boy your son's age, too. 

[Tony Richards]

Alan Garner's wonderfully well-written YA fantasy novels -- particularly The Owl Service -- are mesmerising reads.

[JEV]

If he's a reader not afraid of a thick book, he could try The Count of Monte Cristo, it's such a fantastic story to get lost in. 

[Tamara Rose Blodgett]

My fifteen year old loved The Soulkeepers. It has a sequel as well~

[Storymagus]

J D Shaw, The Thirteenth Door - old school fantasy adventure but well placed in the modern world.
Alex Rider series
Time Riders  - Alex Scarrow
Elliott Harker and the Stones of Sirvelius - see below (cough, cough, hint, hint)
H.I.V.E

I have read all of those ones your son read and I liked all the above (and one of them I loved!!!)

[Steven Stickler]

With the list you've provided, I would agree strongly with the Scott Westerfeld series and would add the Frank Beddor Looking Glass Wars Trilogy, starting with this one:



Very cool series.

[Tamara Rose Blodgett]

Also, (my fifteen year old son is reading these), Destiny Binds and the sequel, Time Mends.

[tamaraheiner]

This one was really good. I hated the ending, but there are rumors about a sequel...

Trapped

[4eyesbooks]

I'm going to agree with the Hunger Games.  I think that would be right up his alley.

[miamiajp]

The entire collection of Jules Verne. I started reading those as soon as learned to read and could comprehend a storyline. They are wonderfull books of science fiction written over 100 years ago on which most of our current day marvels and discoveries are based. "20000 leagues under the sea" about submarine exploration almost 100 years before the first submarines where designed. "A Journey to the center of the earth" About geological exploration, and "From the Earth to the Moon" traveling to our moon in 1865!
They are perfect tools to awaken a child's imagination and thirst for more. "Around the World in 80 days" would make an explorer out of the most sedentary child.